Getting More from Your Sketches
Matt Lombard · 2018
This chapter teaches the readers about more advanced sketch tools, as well as how to edit and manipulate sketches, and how to work with sketch text, sketch pictures, and sketch colors. Display/Delete Relations is the primary tool for dealing with sketch relations. It is particularly useful for sorting relations by the various categories shown. The SketchXpert can help one to diagnose and repair complex sketch-relation problems. The 3D sketch is an important tool for creating weldments (and many other features) in SolidWorks. Solving sketches in 3D is more difficult than it is in 2D. Users will see more situations where sketch relations fail or they flip in the wrong direction. Angle dimensions in particular are notorious in 3D sketches for flipping direction if they change and go across the 180-degree mark. When possible, it is advisable to work with fully defined sketches and to be careful (and conservative) with sketch relations.